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Feminism, Women's Movements and Women in Movement CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Aberdeen University Research Archive Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement Sara Motta, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Catherine Eschle, Laurence Cox For this issue Interface is delighted to welcome Catherine Eschle as guest editor. Until recently co-editor of the International feminist journal of politics, Catherine has written with Bice Maiguashca on feminism and the global justice movement, as well as on the politics of feminist scholarship and other themes relevant to this issue. Introduction This issue engages with the increasingly important, separate yet interrelated themes of feminism, women’s movements and women in movement in the context of global neoliberalism. The last few decades have witnessed an intensification of neoliberal restructuring, involving the opening of national economies to international capital and the erosion of rights and guarantees won previously by organised labour (Federici, 1999, 2006). Neoliberal policies have driven ever larger proportions of the population into flexibilised and informalised working conditions, and caused a crisis in masculinised organised labour (Chant, 2008; Hite and Viterna, 2005), the collapse of welfare provision for poor families, and the privatisation of public and/or collective goods such as land, housing and education. As a consequence, poverty has been feminised and violence, both structural and individual, has intensified. In the main, women carry the burden of ensuring the survival of their families (Olivera, 2006; González de la Rocha, 2001), combining escalating domestic responsibilities with integration into a labour market that is increasingly precarious and unregulated. Furthermore, their integration is accompanied by accelerated sexualisation of public space, and the concurrent objectification and commodification of women’s minds and bodies (McRobbie, 2009). Such conditions serve only to deepen women’s experiences of poverty, inequality, exclusion, alienation and violence. At the same time, feminism seems to be in crisis. Prominent sectors of the feminist movement have become institutionalised and professionalised, including within academia, and in this context serious questions have been raised about how well they can defend women from neoliberalism and about their role in the struggle for a post-neoliberal, post-patriarchal world. The result is a paradoxical situation of defeats and de-politicisation, on the one hand, combined with new forms of re-politicisation, on the other. Women continue to resist, in both familiar and more inventive ways, attempting in so doing to redefine the nature of feminism and of politics and to challenge patriarchal and neoliberal orthodoxies. 1 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… In this light, we suggest that there is an urgent need to revisit and reinvent feminist theorising and practice in ways that combine critical understanding of the past with our current struggles, and that create theories both inside and outside the academy to support movement praxis. There are, however, some obstacles to such a project. Feminist theory, which developed out of and for women’s activism, at times has been directly linked to and shaped by the dilemmas facing movement organising and at other times has represented a more distant and reflective form of thought. If many activists continue to find it useful in the development of their social critiques and the scrutiny of mobilised identities, the relationship of feminist theory to questions of movement organising is often less clear, as is what feminist theory can offer social movement analysis. More challengingly, while some women’s movements are distinctly and proudly feminist, others avoid the term (even while consciously or unconsciously adopting feminist practices and attitudes), while still more contest its meaning. A range of activist communities, such as trade unions and alterglobalisation, environmental or peace movements, perceive feminist-labelled arguments as marginal to their struggles, at best, and ignore them altogether, at worst. The fraught relationship of activists to the notion of feminism is in some instances a result of the power of patriarchy; all struggles for social change, not just women’s movements, are highly gendered, often in hierarchical and damaging ways. In addition, many new movements - from the “occupy” camps to the recent student protests - seem to be victims of the historical moment and its peculiar dynamics of depoliticisation. In conditions of neoliberalism, the present is fetishised, any sense of the past is eroded, and the possibility of a different future is diminished. Lessons from past feminist struggles, theories and experiences thus often remain invisible, weakening the consolidation of resistance movements against neoliberal capitalist globalisation. Finally, feminists themselves may have contributed to their marginalisation in activist contexts because of their tendency to privilege a partial, white, bourgeois, liberal perspective. Long resisted by black and working class women for its silencing and sidelining of their experiences, voices and strategies, this tendency can make feminism appear less relevant than it should to movements of racially oppressed groups and of the poor. In this issue of Interface we seek to explore the relationship between theory and practice as a means of opening up possibilities for the reconnection of feminist academic analysis to women’s everyday struggles, thereby contributing to a more emancipatory feminism and to a post-patriarchal, anti-neoliberal politics. We do so both by re-considering feminist theories in the academy in the light of the strategic demands of political action and by exploring the theoretical implications of women’s movements and women in movement. What is more, the issue seeks to expose to critical scrutiny the relationship between feminism and women’s organising, on the one hand, and social movement theory and practice more generally, on the other. 2 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… To get the issue off the ground, we invited contributions from feminist activists and scholars, participants in and students of women’s movements, and social movement researchers interested in women’s agency and the gendering of movement activism. In the original call for papers, we set out a range of questions for consideration: Is there a distinctively feminist mode of analysing social movements and collective agency? Can (should) academic forms of feminism be reclaimed as theory-for- movements? In what ways and to what extent are social movement actors using feminist categories to develop new forms of collective action? Are there specific types of “women’s movement/s” in terms of participation, tactics and strategies? Has the feminisation of poverty led to the feminisation of resistance among movements of the poor? If so / if not, what are the implications for such resistance? Under what conditions does women’s participation in movements which are not explicitly feminist or focussed on specifically gendered issues lead to a change in power relations? What are the implications of women’s participation for collective identity or movement practice, leadership and strategy? What constitutes progressive or emancipatory movement practice in relation to gender, and good practice in alliance-building? How can social movement scholarship contribute more to the feminist analysis of activism, and how can feminist scholarship help develop a fuller understanding of collective agency? Are there specifically gendered themes to the current global wave of movements? Have feminist perspectives anything distinctive to offer the analysis of such movements? What can enquiry into contemporary activism learn from historical feminist writing on women’s movements and women’s role in other movements? We also specifically solicited contributions for the issue from feminist and / or women’s groups, communities and movements, as well as from the individuals within them, asking them to reflect on questions of strategy in the neoliberal context delineated above. While inviting activists to frame their own questions and problematics, we suggested topics such as: What does feminist strategy mean today? What are the challenges and limitations of feminist strategising in the current moment? 3 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… How do contemporary feminist activists and women’s movements draw on the practices and experiences of earlier movements? Where do you see yourselves in terms of movement achievements to date and the road still to be travelled? What barriers and possibilities for feminist struggle has neoliberalism created? Does the decline of neo-liberalism create openings for feminists? What movements today could be allies for a transition out of patriarchy? If these seem grandiose and difficult questions, they are no less important for that. We acknowledge that they cannot be answered definitively
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